Improved knife, fork, and pie-crimper



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UNITED STATES PATENT GEFICE.

GEORGE D; BAYLEY, OE BOSTON, MAssAcHUsErrs IMPROVED KNIFE, FORK, AND Pineau/Ipsa.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. fill-,699, dated OctobeulS, 1864 antedated October 1, 1864.

To all whom it may concern:-

Beit known that L'GEORGE D. BAYLEY,

I of Boston, in the countyof'Sufolk, in the State of Massachusetts, have invented an improvement in articles for pastry use, said improvement consisting of .a Knife, Fork, and Pie-Urimper Gombined; and I do hereby decla-re that the following is a full andexact description of said combination and improvement, referen'cebeing had to the accompanyand` to thelctters of reference marked thereo The nature of my invention and improve- `ment consistsin having a knife, fork, and piecrimper combinedin one handle in such *a* manner as to allow each to be usedfor its especial purpose with'out having recourse to another or separate article, thus giving a sav# ing of timeand labor which the handling or use of said articles separately-.would otherwise cause, also expediting the process of trimming and ornamenting the edge or bordering of pies and other pastry.

The following, therefore, is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the, same, reference heilig had to t-he annexed drawings making apart of this specification, in which- Figure 1 isa side section Fig.- 2, a front section.

A is the knife-blade; C and B, thepie- ,l crimper, which is Welded or soldered at the haft c to the haft a ofthe knife,'the whole be- `ing firmly cemented or driven into the handle E, into .the lower end of which is cemented or driven the haft a of -the fork D. .The arbor and support C U of the revolving wheel B,

with: its indented or milled edge c, isset-at un angle of twenty degrees'from the back of the knife-blade A,in order to give. freedom in` their respective use. The revolving wheel B, with its milled or otherwise uniformly indented edge,e, forms the pie-crimper, which may be, or is, an inch in diameter, and revolves freely on the arbor G,formcd by a bend of onehall of an inch at the end of the support C. Said projection of Onehalf'of an inch formed bythe bend C constiutes a gage between the crimper B and the knifeblade A, said crimper being secured in its position by the washersj' f. It will therefore be seen by reference that when you. use the knife by drawing it along the edge of the plate Where the surplus pastry has been previously trimmed by said knife the crimper B projects sufticientlyover the'edge of said plate and pastry that by drawing it along and around the edge said crimper revolves, 'and the indented edge being impressed in the dough it crimps it and gives a uniform ornamentte the edgeof the pie, which may be further ornamented by the use of the fork D.

1 construct my knife A and forli D in any of the known forms, which, together with the crimper and support B C, may be made if either iron or brass. The support C of the crimper 'B may be made of stout Wire.

Thus, in using this article combined, you have, by turning the crimper towardlyou, a knife whereby to cut the dough or trim the edge of a pie or other pastry. By turning the edgeof the knife toward you and bringgaged crimper, which, by drawingit around thewhole edge of the plate, uniformly crimps the edge ofthe pie. yThe fork, in the other GEORGE l). BAYLEY. Witnessesr DAN. J. COBURN, A GEORGE' H. JACKSON.

ing it close to edge of the plate you have a i end of the handle, serves to prick the center 

